Globe and shade holder.



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GLOBE AND SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, I914- RENEWED JUNE 22I 1916.

1,199,073. PatentedSept. 26,1916.

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WILLIAM C. HOMAN, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 EDWARD.MILLER & COMPANY, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

GLOBE AND SHADE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Application filed June 6, 1914, Serial No. 843,375. Renewed June 22, 1916. Serial 110,105,315.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. HoMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Globe and Shade Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved device for holding shades, globes and the like.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the under side of my improved holder, said View being partly in section. Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view. Figs. 4 and 5 show modifications.

1 is a gallery ring having the usual central passage for the illuminating device.

2 is a spring ring having overlapping ends which terminate in radially extending handles 33. These handles pass through elongated slots i-at in the side of the gallery rin 1.

wall of the gallery. The ring is supported by the lower edges of the several slots. The ring 2 is normally contracted so that the handles 3-3 normally press toward the outer ends of the slot H. To prevent the accidental separation of the globe clamping spring ring 2 from the gallery 1, I provide means to hold the ring in such a position at all times that the extension 5 cannot be withdrawn from the slot in which it should stand and so that the ends of the ring at the base of the handles 33 cannot escape through the slots l--l. In the preferred form, this holding means comprises a ring 6 at the base of each handle, which ring may be secured in place in any desired way. For example, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, each ring 6 has a tubular extension or sleeve 6, which fits over th handle end 3. The presence of these rings 6, the diameter of each of which is greater than the width of its respective slot et, within the gallery, constitutes one effective means for preventing the ends of the ring at the base of the handles 3-3 from escaping through the slots l. Thus, by having the ring properly proportioned as shown, the ofiset 5 will always be held in place in its slot against accidental displacement so that it will be properly supported and so that. the ring in, turn will properly support a globe or shade.

In Figs. 4 and 5., I have shown, a slight modification of the holder means. in which instead of. providing a ring 6 at the baseof the handle 3, I have provided a plate 7 Whichis held tothe ring end at the base of the handle 3 by means of a clip 7'. This plate 7 is of suflicient width to overlap the edges of the slot 4 and thus hold the end of the ring 2 properly in place and from escaping through the elongated slot.

It is preferable that the slots should be cut in the gallery at a considerable distance apart and the wire end of the ring from a point opposite the rear lap 5 is preferably formed at a tangent (as best seen in Fig. 4)

when the ring is not restrained. By this j means the res1l1ency of the globe clamping ring will cause it to approximately center in the gallery when performing the globe sup porting function. The stop shoulders shown in the drawings may be of course modified in a variety of ways, the important thing being to have the same so associated with the ends of the ring as to prevent the ends from escaping through the elongated slots.

What I claim is: V

1. In a holding device for shades and globes, a gallery ring, a globe gripping spring ring having overlapping ends, an outwardly projecting handle for each end of said ring, said gallery being slotted to permit said handles to pass therethrough and to be moved toward each other to expand the ring, a projection at the opposite side of said globe gripping ring, said gallery ring having a passage in which said projection stands, stops carried by the globe gripping ring ends, said stops bearing against the inner side of'the gallery ring along the inner edge of said passage to prevent the ends of said globe gripping ring at the base of the handles from escaping through said slots.

2. In a holding device for shades and globes, a gallery ring, a globe gripping spring ring having overlapping ends, an outwardly projecting handle for each'end of said ring, saidgallery being slotted to permit said handles to pass therethrough and to be moved toward each other to expand the ring, a projection at the opposite lery ring having a passage in which said projection stands, stops carried by the globe gripping ring ends, said stops bearing against the inner side of the gallery ring to prevent the ends of said globe gripping ring at the base of the handles from escaping through said slots, one of said stops comprising a ring mounted near the base of said handle.

3. In a holding device for shades and globes, a gallery ring, a globe gripping spring ring having overlapping ends, an outwardly projecting handle for each end of said ring, said gallery being slotted to permit said handles to pass therethrough V and to be moved toward each other to exlery ring having a passage in Which said, projection stands, stops carried by the globe gripping ring ends, said: stops bearing against the inner side of the gallery ring to prevent the ends of said globe gripping ring at the base of the handles from escaping through said slots, one of said stops comprising a ring mounted at the base of said handle, and a sleeve projectingfr'om said ring into which the handle extends WILLIAM G. HOMAN. Witnesses:

ALFRED DUNLOP, CHAS. E. HUMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

